- Actors: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsurô Tanba, Teru Shimada
- Directors: Lewis Gilbert
- Writers: Harold Jack Bloom, Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl
- Producers: Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Stanley Sopel
- Format: PAL
- Language English, Japanese, Russian
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: PG
- Studio: MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
- DVD Release Date: 3 Nov 2003
- Run Time: 117 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004SH4N
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The film boasts the best of the Bond title songs (this one sung on a dreamy track by Nancy Sinatra), but the movie itself is one of the weaker ones of the Sean Connery phase of the 007 franchise. The story concerns an effort by the evil organisation SPECTRE to start a world war, but the not-so-super villain behind the plot is the awfully civilised Donald Pleasence. The thin script is by Roald Dahl (shouldn't we have expected a better Bond nemesis from the creator of mad genius Willy Wonka?), and direction is by British veteran Lewis Gilbert (Alfie). But the movie can't hold a candle to Dr. No, From Russia with Love, or Goldfinger. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
On the DVD: This was another troubled production according to the insightful "making of" documentary: director and producers luckily avoided boarding a plane out of Tokyo that crashed and killed everyone on board; the Japanese actresses couldn't speak English and one threatened suicide if she was dropped from the part; and the aerial cameraman filming the helicopter fight had his leg sliced off by a rotor blade. Maurice Binder's evocative main title designs are the subject of the second documentary, "Silhouettes", in which his colleagues voiceboth their admiration of his art and frustration at his chaotic working practices. The commentary is another edited selection of interviews with principal cast and crew. An animated storyboard sequence, trailers, radio spots and a handsome booklet add up to another winning entry in this series. --Mark Walker
Video Description
DVD Special Features :
Audio Commentary featuring Director Lewis Gilbert and members of the Cast and Crew
"Inside You Only Live Twice" Documentary
"Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles" Documentary
Plane Crash: Animated Storyboard Sequence
Collectable "Making Of" Booklet
Radio Spots
Original Theatrical Trailers
English Subtitles
2.35:1 widescreen 16:9 version
Dolby Digital
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Oh the things i do for England,
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This review is from: You Only Live Twice [DVD] [1967] (DVD)
From the opening bars of the title song (surely the best Bond song ever) I'm back queuing outside the Carlton in Essex Road at a very tender age waiting to see the latest big thing. There's no other film that quite manages it (well maybe Zulu).
Connery is, and always will be, James Bond - I know a couple of the others have been quite good, Daniel Craig amongst them, but Connery is the best, even if he was too common for Ian Fleming. Let's face it if it wasn't for the films the books would have been long forgotten. Anyway Bond's in Japan; someone's trying to start World War III by kidnapping spaceships; there's lot's of sinister Orientals (and some good ones); the baddies have lots of opportunities to just kill him but never quite get around to it; Donald Pleasence strokes his cat and there's a damn good punch up in a hollowed-out volcano. The music's fabulous (good old John Barry), the script is witty (good old Roald Dahl) and well, it's just splendid. One star deducted for whoever's idea it was to disguise Connery as a Japanese fisherman - I mean, I know it's James Bond, but come on!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
You Only Live Twice, 2007 Bond Remastered Edition - Bond uses up all his lives in Oriental adventure,
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This review is from: Bond Remastered - You Only Live Twice (1-disc) [DVD] (DVD)
For his fifth cinema outing superspy James Bond is sent off to Japan in another fight against SPECTRE. This time the criminal organisation is trying to start world war three using captured Russian and American space vehicles.
There are big thrills aplenty as Sean Connery's Bond stumbles around in Japan, trying to uncover the threads of the scheme. Bond gets into scrape after scrape leading to ever more impressive escapes and stunts, all of which builds up to the thrilling final showdown which is suitably action packed and full of big bangs. Introducing Bond's nemesis Blofeld for the first time, here played by a very creepy and evil looking Donald Pleasance, and the idea of a supervillain hiding out in a disused volcano lair, this is a thrilling ride from start to finish. Characterisation takes a bit of a back seat to the stunts, but it is an exciting ride none the less. This digitally restored edition really is the best version of the film I have owned. The picture has been lovingly restored and cleaned up, and looks amazing. Really, I am not just saying that. It looks superb. The sound has been similarly treated and there is an option to listen to it in 5.1 DTS surround, which is truly exceptional.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Premium Bond No. 4,
By Matthew Mercy (Wigan, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: You Only Live Twice [DVD] [1967] (DVD)
Sean Connery was irritated by the James Bond role by the time production began on his fifth effort in the series, and the star wears his frustration on his face in many scenes, in this (very loose) adaptation of one of Fleming's last novels. But despite its many deviations from the original book (a direct sequel to the On Her Majesty's Secret Service novel, which, annoyingly, would be the next film in the Eon series), You Only Live Twice is still an exciting, enjoyably daft Bond adventure. Ignoring the usual surfeit of illogicalities and continuity errors, the camerawork is reasonably dynamic, the set design for the hollowed-out volcano is awesome, and Nancy Sinatra's theme song is a personal favourite. Though Donald Pleasence gives the most recognisable and distinctive version of Blofeld on film, his performance (and very limited screen time) are still a disappointment after the SPECTRE chief's mysterious appearances in From Russia With Love and Thunderball built up the character so effectively, a problem Eon would be unable to overcome with all the character's subsequent appearances. Wrestling fans might like to note that the grandfather of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Peter Maivia, here plays the bulky assassin Bond brawls with before breaking into a safe thirty minutes into the movie.
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